Software Engineer III: Full-Stack AI Cloud Platform

Pearson; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Software Engineer to design, implement, test, and maintain high-quality software solutions. You will build a new platform on a modern stack, learn new tools rapidly, and introduce agent-driven AI approaches while collaborating with customers and the data science team.

The role emphasizes ownership, learning, and delivering robust cloud-based applications using AWS, R, and related CI/CD practices. A strong background in full-stack development and statistics is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology discipline, or equivalent on-the-job training.
• A willingness to learn new technologies and new domains (R, data science, agentic AI cloud applications).
• 3–5 years relevant full-stack software development experience.
• Experience with development, maintenance, and testing of software, following industry best practices.
• Experience with highly available, highly concurrent cloud-based Web applications.
• Some background in statistics is not required but is a big plus.
• AWS hosted applications.
• R and R data science libraries.
• Github and Github-driven CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Develop and support a new web application stack.
• Leverage and refine LLM-codegen processes to balance agility and quality.
• Develop and leverage agent-driven AI architectures.
• Work closely with customers and adapt tools to their needs.
• Develop psychometrics and data science-focused tools in R.
• Operate, extend and create cloud-based solutions in AWS.
• Develop and maintain code using best practices for maintainability, performance, security, and verifiability.
• Possess the ability to quickly learn new processes, tools, and business domains.
• Work with engineering leadership to deliver timely, robust software adhering to best practices.

Skills

Full-stack development

Agile

Learning agility

Cloud-based architectures

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology discipline, or equivalent on-the-job training

Tools

Github-driven CI/CD

AWS hosted applications

R data science libraries

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Software Engineer to design, implement, test, and maintain high-quality software solutions. You will build a new platform on a modern stack, learn new tools rapidly, and introduce agent-driven AI approaches while collaborating with customers and the data science team.

The role emphasizes ownership, learning, and delivering robust cloud-based applications using AWS, R, and related CI/CD practices. A strong background in full-stack development and statistics is a plus.